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Baptist

 

First Baptist Church

101 Broadway

    217-732-7409

 


 

Park Meadows Baptist Church

800 Memorial Drive

    217-732-6900

 


 

Second Baptist Church

1728 Tremont

    217-732-9292

 

Bible Church

 

Lincoln Bible Church
2316 N. Kickapoo St.
         217-735-5959

Pastor:
  Steve Poirot

Worship:
  10AM Sunday
Sunday School:
  9AM
Website: www.lincolnbiblechurch,org
email: sjpoirot@gmail.com

 

Catholic

Holy Family Parish
316 S. Logan St.
    217-732-4019


 

St. Mary's Church

805 S. Pearl St.

Atlanta, IL

    217-648-2673

 


 

St. Patrick's Church

213 S. Bogardus

Elkhart, IL

    217-947-2714

 


 

St. Thomas Aquinas Church

321 S. Lafayette

Mt. Pulaski, IL

    217-792-5892

 

Christian

 

Atlanta Christian Church

Atlanta, IL

    217-648-2464

 


 

Broadwell Christian Church

111 S. Olive

Broadwell, IL

    217-735-5217

 


 

Elkhart Christian Church

113 S. Gillett St.

Elkhart, IL 

    217-947-2726

 


 

Emden Christian Church

214 Corn

Emden, IL

    217-376-3387

 


 

Eminence Christian Church

E. Rd. 2500N & 1600

Atlanta, IL

    217-648-5051


 

First Christian Church

115 N. Washington

Mt. Pulaski IL

    217-792-5417

 


Jefferson Street Christian Church
1700 N. Jefferson St.
         217-732-9294

Preaching minister:
  Dustin Fulton

Worship:
  9AM & 10:45AM Sunday
Midweek activities:
  "Truth North": 6PM Wed.
Website: www.jeffstreet.org
email: dustinf@jeffstreet.org


Lincoln Christian Church
Independent Christian Church
204 N. McLean St.
         217-732-7618

Preaching minister:
  Ron Otto

Worship:
  8:15, 9:30, 11AM & 6PM
  Sunday
Midweek activities:
(Beginning Sept. 12)
  Adult, Youth & Kids' Club:
 
6:30PM Wed.
Website: www.lincolnchristianchurch.org


Prairieland Christian Church
P.O. Box 108, 1st St.

 Hartsburg, IL 62643


 

Waynesville Christian Church

Waynesville, IL

    217-949-4661

 

Church of Christ

 

Lincoln Church of Christ
800 Pulaski

    217-735-1130

 

Church of the Nazarene

 

Lincoln Church of the Nazarene

2501 Woodlawn Rd.
217-732-8362

 

Episcopal

Trinity Episcopal Church
402 Pekin St., Lincoln
         217-732-7609

Independent

 

Allen Chapel-AME

910 Broadway

Lincoln, IL

    217-732-7537

 


 

Faith Assembly of God

1225 Nicholson Rd.

    217-735-5900

 


 

Full Gospel Tabernacle

426 N. Monroe

    217-735-3148

 


 

Jehovah's Witnesses-Kingdom Hall

111 Northville Dr.

    217-735-4983

 


 

iWorshipCenter

304 N. McLean St.

    217-522-6532

 


 

New Church

108 NW Walnut

Atlanta, IL

    217-648-2221

 

Lutheran

 

Faith Lutheran Church

2320 N. Kickapoo

    217-732-4901

 


 

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Association of Free Lutheran Congregations
1140 N. State St., Lincoln
         217-735-9320
Pastor: Clarence Mankin
Worship: 9AM Sunday

Sunday School: 10:15AM Sunday

email:pastor@goodshepherd-lincoln.org

website: www.goodshepherd-lincoln.org


Immanuel Lutheran Church  ELCA
1409 Pulaski St., Lincoln
         217-732-6777
Pastor: Andrew Nyren
Worship: 9AM Sunday
Sunday School: 10:15AM
Praise Service:
 5PM Saturday
Website: http://www.immanuellincoln.org
email:


Zion Lutheran Church Missouri Synod
205 Pulaski Street, Lincoln
       217-732-3946

Head Pastor: Mark A. Thompson
Ass't Pastor: David P. Ramirez

WORSHIP: 8 & 10:30AM Sundays
Sunday School & Bible Classes: 9:20AM

Live Broadcasts: 8AM WLLM 1370AM or
www.zionlincolnil.org
Cable Ch 5: 5PM Sat. & 10AM Sun.


 

St. John's Lutheran Church

223 W. Cooke St.

Mt. Pulaski, IL

    217-792-5502

 


 

St. John's Lutheran Church

Hartsburg, IL

    217-642-5233

 


 

St. Peter's Lutheran Church

Emden, IL

    217-376-3137

 


 

Zion Lutheran Church

105 N. Logan

New Holland, IL

    207-445-2264

 


 

Zion Lutheran Church

401 N. Logan

Chestnut, IL

    217-796-3386

 


 

Zion Lutheran Church

201 S. Vine

Mt. Pulaski, IL

    217-782-5965

 

Methodist
See United Methodist

Nondenominational

Open Arms Christian Fellowship
311 Broadway St., Lincoln

217-732-4800
Pastors: Larry Crawford
, 309-830-0461
Kevin Wolf
, 309-838-8564
Worship: 10AM Sunday
Home Group:  Various dates and locations
(
please call for more information)
Website:
email: comeback7@msn.com

United Methodist

 

Atlanta United Methodist Church

2nd & Race

Atlanta, IL

    217-648-5002

 


 

Beason United Methodist Church

1544 Walnut

Beason, IL

    217-447-3388

 


 

Elkhart Methodist Church

Elkhart, IL

217-947-2303

 


Chestnut United Methodist Church
313 N. Logan St.              Chestnut
         217-
796-3532


First United Methodist Church
302 Broadway St.,  Lincoln
         217-732-2204


First United Methodist Church
303 E Jefferson,               Mt. Pulaski
         217-
792-3918


 

Hartsburg United Methodist Church

Hartsburg, IL

    217-642-5425

 


Latham United Methodist Church
241 N. Walnut St.             PO Box 246               Latham
         217-674-3749


New Holland United Methodist Church
201 N. Mason St.,  New Holland
         217-445-2485

United Church of Christ

 

ST. JOHN UNITED CHURCH of Christ

Seventh and Maple Street,

Lincoln

          217-732-6957

Pastor: Rich Reinwald

Worship:

10:30AM Sunday

Sunday School:

9-10:15AM

email: stjohnucclincoln

@yahoo.com

 


 

United Pentecostal Church

1422 Pekin St.

    217-732-4662

 

Presbyterian

First Presbyterian Church
301 Pekin St.,  Lincoln
         217-732-6141
Pastor: Rev. Phillip Blackburn

Worship:  
 10AM Sunday
Celebration: 6PM Wed.

Website: www.preslincoln.org
email:  office@preslincoln.org


First Cumberland Presbyterian Church
110 Broadway St.,  Lincoln
         217-732-7568

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Church Activities & Announcements

 

 

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Recent Spiritual Life Articles

Salvation

 

"The word is near you,
   on your lips and in your heart’
(that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); because if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For one believes with the heart and so is justified, and one confesses with the mouth and so is saved."
-Romans 10: 8-9

 

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Swim with a Purpose

 

Salmon begin their lives in the fresh water rivers of the frigid Northwest. Not long after they’re born they begin a long swim downstream. Their destination is the ocean. It is here that they spend the majority of their adult lives. Then something strange happens. Scientists don’t even understand how, but at some point the adult salmon begins to swim back home. Though they may have swum thousands of miles from that original river location they head back home. That’s right! They swim upstream, against the current of the river. You’ve probably seen nature programs on TV that show them leaping out of the water to overcome waterfalls and other barriers impeding their progress.

 

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Renewal and Salvation

 

Short and sweet.  Paul pulls no punches, makes no qualifications, offers no refuge.  Sin=death.  Think about what he is saying here.  If we think of life as an economy, as if it were a job itself, then we can see quite quickly that everything we do has some sort of payoff, a wage.  When I sleep at night, the wage is energy in the morning.  When I watch baseball, the wage is escape.  When I worship God, the wage is joy.  You see the relationship; nothing you do is value neutral in your life.  Nothing.  Paul, recognizing this, points out a simple truth.  That the wages of sin, the value of it in our lives, is eventually death.  He pulls back the curtain on our darksides.

 

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All That You Have
 

"In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. Then God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day."-Genesis 1: 1-5

 

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Change

 

"Therefore, friends, select from among yourselves seven men of good standing, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we shall appoint to this task, while we, for our part, will devote ourselves to prayer and to serving the word."-Acts 6:3

 

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Happy Endings!

 

The teacher was extremely enthusiastic. She looked at the class of four-year-olds and asked this question: “Does anyone know what today is?” A little girl held up her hand and said, “Yes, today is Palm Sunday.” The teacher said, “That’s fantastic. That’s wonderful. Now does anyone know what next Sunday is?”

 

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The Piano Lesson

 

The story has been told several times through the years called, “The Piano Lesson!” Wishing to encourage her young son's progress on the piano, a mother took the small boy to a Paderewski concert. After they were seated, the mother spotted a friend in the audience and walked down the aisle to greet her.

 

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Christ's Body

 

"Listen, I will tell you a mystery!  We will not all die, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.  For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.  For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality."

 

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A Lonely World

 

"Do not speak harshly to an older man, but speak to him as to a father, to younger men as brothers, to older women as mothers, to younger women as sisters—with absolute purity."
-1 Timothy 5: 1-2 

 

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"Why Does this Happen?"

 

"But the serpent said to the woman, ‘You will not die; for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."-Genesis 3: 4-5

 

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Community

 

"But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, 'Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!'  For he and all who were with him were amazed at the catch of fish they had taken; and so als were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon.  Then Jesus said to them, 'Do not be afraid, from now on you will be catching people.'  When they had brought their boats to shore, they left everything and followed him."-Luke 5: 8-11

 

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God's Creation

 

"God said, ‘See, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.’

 

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The Good Samaritan

 

"Jesus replied, ‘A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.

 

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The Best Way

 

 It is worth talking a bit about Mary since we, as Protestants, often sell her short because we don't want to overdo things as our Roman Catholic brothers and sisters tend to do.  Mary is an absolute model of faithfulness.  God comes to her and tells her that she will bear the Messiah and she just goes right along with it.  This fidelity is evident to her cousin Elizabeth, who is pregnant with John the Baptist, and she tells Mary so.  Surely Elizabeth's words helped Mary through her pregnancy and eased any lingering doubts she might have had, but it is her faithfulness and her willingness to carry out God's Will that makes her so remarkable.

 

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The King

 

As the Gospel of John winds down there seems to be a lot of confusion about Jesus. Just prior to this passage, Peter, Jesus' most trusted disciple, denies knowing who he is. Then Jesus was brought before the Roman governor of the region, Pontius Pilate, and was further questioned. Pilate, not a Jew by the way, was unsure why the Jews sought Jesus' execution and so he started asking Jesus questions including the question listed above. Jesus was evasive in his answers but apparently he said enough to give Pilate some clue as to his true identity. Nonetheless Pilate seems confused by the whole event.

 

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The Source

 

For those of you who have been in worship over the past several weeks you will be very familiar with this text since I have been preaching on it since the beginning of the month. This week we will be talking about Jesus as "the life." Note that Jesus does not say he is life, rather he adds a definite article in proclaiming himself "the life." In that simple "the" there is a world of substance. What Jesus understood is that there are many lives available to us. One choice leads to another and then another and then another with the sum of those choices being the course of our lives.
 

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Commitment Issues

 

The organ anthem fades as the bride and groom draw together. The pastor announces that the groom will now declare the vows that he has written himself. He clears his throat and, looking deeply into his bride’s eyes, begins to speak. “I promise to love you with all my heart, sacrificing for you whenever you are in need, standing by you at all times, providing for your every need. I will never leave you.” The bride’s turn soon comes. “I will accept all that you have to give me. I anticipate that I will always have a house and car, plenty of clothes and 3 children, all healthy. When I want, I will clean and cook, but you will be expected to do this at all other times. And don’t forget to put the lid down.”

 

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Stewardship
 

Thanks to greedy charlatans parading as pastors, talking about money and the Church in our culture is a challenge.  "Why should I give to the Church," we think, "God doesn't need money."  And this is true, God doesn't need any money, but we should give for two reasons.  First, giving is a spiritual discipline.  Just as prayer, worship, study and service all draw us closer to God, so does giving in His name.  When we give of our money we embody the words of Christ above.

 

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Up The Hill
 

I was at the Illinois football game last Saturday morning and as the Illini did their best welcome mat impression I wondered to myself, "why do I show up for this?" I mean, even if the team I was supporting was winning, why actually go to a game? Think about it. I could watch the game on TV for free or I could drive to the stadium, pay for parking, tickets and food. Why not just stay home? The reason, for me, is that being at the game, with the crowd, feels different

 

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Giving Credit

 

In case you have not forgotten, this is the Psalm Jesus quotes as he writhes in agony on the cross. He speaks only verse 1, "My God, My God, why have your forsaken me?" But his intent is to call all of his followers to the Psalm in its entirety. And the verse above is how that Psalm concludes. In quoting Psalm 22 Jesus is quickly referencing the most complete Psalm in its exploration of the human condition as it relates to faith in God. All of us who are believers swing wildly from, "Where are you God?" to "You are pretty awesome God!"

 

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Present Yourself Back to God

 

Ken Read in his book Created to Worship tells us: “Another aspect of worship is to actively respond to His nature and His deeds, by presenting ourselves back to God. Romans 12 urges us, after taking a good, long look at the mercies of God and the forgiveness that He has given us, to turn the gift around and give ourselves back to Him as living sacrifices, which is our spiritual act of worship.

 

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Rough Seas
 

The most powerful enemy of the Christian is fear. Fear is the one thing which can most easily undermine our faith and overwhelm our desire to serve and follow Jesus. We may have a loved one who is behaving like a boor, but we won't confront him. Why? Because we are afraid he will be angry at us. We may see payday loan shops littering our town and functionally stealing from our neighbors, but we won't challenge them.

 

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Healing

 

This healing story is working on several different levels. First, Jesus is healing a man who had been sick for 38 years. The man was lying by the Bethzatha pool, known in those days for its healing powers, but he had no one to help him into the pool. Jesus asks the man if he would like to be made well, the man of course says "yes," and Jesus calmly tells him to take his mat, stand up and walk.

 

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Nourishment
 

It is the only miracle story to appear in all 4 Gospels. It is the one story almost everyone knows outside of the birth story and the crucifixion. It is the feeding of the five thousand. So, what's the big deal? Why all the repeat this particular story so many times? Well, I think there is a simple reason for that. In this story we find the richness and depth of who Jesus is. We see the compassion, the power, the love. We find a powerful metaphor for Holy Communion

 

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The Living Water

 

These days most of us probably spend a lot of time thinking about what we don't have. Most of us have less money than we did 18 months ago. Most of us are older than we'd like to be. Most of us have lost someone that we wish we could have back. Most of us don't have the car or television or house we want. Most of us look around our lives and we see what is absent. And that is because our lives are filled with things that are finite, that have limits. Not to bring you down, but someday, everything we have will be gone.

 

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Miracles

 

"Now standing there were six stone waters jars for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to them, 'Fill the jars with water.' And they filled them up to the brim. He said to them, 'Now draw some out, and take it to the chief steward.' So they took it. When the steward tasted the water that had become wine...he said, 'everyone serves the good wine first and the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now.'"-John 2: 6-10

 

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